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The Cleanup Taskforce is aimed at dealing with issues relating to cleanup, fact checking, and the growth of the Wikipedia project in an efficient manner.

This effort, implemented via a network of Wikipedians, is compatible with (and complementary to) other approaches to article cleanup, namely cleanup pages and categories. This approach also ensures that tasks assigned to the team are never neglected; each issue is always on the "desk" of one or more taskforce members at any given time.

For more information on how you can participate, please see Wikipedia:Cleanup Taskforce/Members.

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[edit] Goals

The aim of the Cleanup Taskforce is to deal with editorial issues, fact-checking, and Wikipedia formatting in the most efficient way possible. Policies and guidelines should work to support this aim.

[edit] Submit a request

Note: A new streamlined procedure has been suggested as an alternative to the traditional procedure described in this section. See below and the talk page for more details.

Anyone is welcome to submit a request to the Cleanup Taskforce! Please be bold in assigning work to Taskforce members. To bring a problem article to the attention of the Taskforce, please take the following steps:

{{cleanup taskforce notice|ARTICLENAME}}
If you're not sure to whom you want to assign the article, leave it at bottom of the list of Unassigned tasks. If you intend to assign it directly to a Taskforce participant, put it at the bottom of the Assigned tasks, with the date you are first listing it.
Example: 
==[[ARTICLENAME]]==

The [[ARTICLENAME]] article is too short.

We should have more information about this. ~~~~

''Added to [[User:USERNAME/Desk]]'' ~~~~

{{Wikipedia:Cleanup Taskforce/ARTICLENAME}}

Wikipedia:Cleanup process details some additional or alternative steps you can take when dealing with a problem article. Wikipedia:Cleanup lists a number of articles identified as needing attention that may or may not have been brought to the Taskforce's attention yet.

[edit] Open tasks

[edit] Unassigned

Assign the following tasks to Taskforce members:

[edit] To Be Reassigned following Re-Registration

[edit] Assigned

The following tasks are currently active (with date of first assignment):

[edit] Taskforce Tasks

These are tasks relating to the ongoing operations of the Cleanup Taskforce.

[edit] Alternate streamlined procedure

Because the process for adding issues to the Taskforce agenda is rather cumbersome, I'm going to experiment with using talk pages as the Taskforce collaboration point instead of a special transclusion page. I'm going to add a bunch of cleanup tasks from 2004, with the goal of getting at least one task on each participant's desk. -- Beland 00:54, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

Procedure:

[edit] Originally from September, 2004

All opened 7 August, 2005.

[edit] Stale requests

If you notice a request that has been sitting on a participant's desk for more than 30 days, you can ask them to reassign it to someone else by putting this text on their user talk page:

{{subst:taskforce-ping}} -- ~~~~

[edit] How to close a completed request

  1. On the article's talk page, change the {{cleanup taskforce notice|ARTICLE NAME}} tag (if there is one) to {{cleanup taskforce closed|ARTICLE NAME}}. Otherwise, just note that you are closing the cleanup request.
  2. Make sure any cleanup tags have been removed from the article and its talk page.
  3. Remove it from Taskforce members' desks. (Visit the collaboration page and check "What links here".)
  4. Remove it from this page and, optionally, archive it at Wikipedia:Cleanup Taskforce/closed

[edit] See also

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